St. Stephen’s Green Trust: Traveller Accommodation Grant programme (TAGP).
Overview
The focus of the programme is on providing Traveller organisations who are leading on the issue of accommodation with multi-annual funding to work strategically to hold duty bearers to account for the provision of Traveller accommodation using community organising, advocacy, activism and supporting the voice of Travellers to effect change.
With this in mind, the Trust has launched an open call for applications to the programme for work that aligns with one or more of the following objectives:
Outcome 1: strengthened support through organising and campaigning: they are interested in work to support activist groups (particularly young people) to hold local and national government to account for the under-provision of accommodation, using rights-based approaches. This may include support for broad-based coalitions of national and regional organisations to mobilise around an agreed campaign to achieve the right to accommodation.
Outcome 2: improved awareness of and attitude towards need for change in how accommodation is being delivered: work which results in duty bearers (local authority management, politicians and others) acknowledging the need for change and acting accordingly; work which leads to increased awareness of the particular challenges and obstacles to the provision of accommodation among specific target groups and where media and other analysis on housing and homelessness is more
likely to refer to the particular issues facing Travellers.
Outcome 3: Strengthened alliances: work which leads to a greater number of Traveller and nonTraveller ‘champions for change’ and improved relationships between stakeholders, building solidarity and alliances.
Outcome 4: improved policies, legislation and change to current practice: work which leads to an increased body of evidence to inform changes in policy and practice and where local and national structures charged with the delivery of accommodation are operating more effectively; work which supports change to legislation, policy and structures to better support the delivery of accommodation.
What they fund
Grants will be made for work which contributes to the outcomes detailed above.
SSGT places emphasis on learning from its grants and the programme has proportionate monitoring, evaluation and learning mechanisms built into its work.
Grant levels will vary from an average of €3,000 to €5,000 for small pieces of research, learning and activism to a maximum €20,000 for work having a greater impact.
They can consider multiannual funding. They will prioritise work which cannot be funded from other sources. They fund core costs
and/or project or programme costs.
They are open to funding direct costs of the organising and advocacy and one-off pieces of research or other time-limited projects which add value to the overall goal. It does not have to be a new project but may add value to current work or builds on previous work.
Given the programme outcomes being sought, SSGT is encouraging collaborative proposals from groups and agencies with the capacity to contribute to the outcomes and which are underpinned by the key programme principles of Traveller participation and relationship building.
Work should be Traveller-led and the project design should be underpinned by principles of transparency, participation, relationship building, accountability and human rights.